VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Support staff who continue to escalate job action at several BC colleges are casting blame on the provincial government.
    
The union feels it’s not the colleges’ fault. CUPE says they actually have a good relationship with the colleges and that the government is the stumbling block.
    
As a result, job action is escalating in the coming days. Pickets are set to go up at BCIT and Vancouver Community College on Monday.
    
And CUPE’s college co-ordinator Ian McLean says it could spread even further. “Depending on where Langara College goes and where Emily Carr University goes, they could be joining us from CUPE’s perspective .”

“We have not been successful in getting any deals in the colleges and institutes that fall under the post secondary employers association,” he adds.

McLean says the province is refusing to sign off on new agreements.